 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 pages
...their effects on the manners and condition of mankind, and to blend the lights of philosophy with the appropriate beauties of historical composition. In...attempted than by Dr Robertson; and by none have the inconveniencies which it threatens 4 been more successfully avoided. In the former respect his merit... | |
 | William Robertson - 1811 - 468 pages
...their effects on the manners and condition of mankind, and to blend the lights of philosophy with the appropriate beauties of historical composition. In...narrative together, of sacrificing clearness to brevity. 3y few writers of the present age has this combination of philosophy with history been more frequently... | |
 | William Robertson - 1817 - 452 pages
...composition. In consequence of this , innovation, while the province of the Historian has been enlarge^ and dignified, the difficulty of his task has increased...attempted than by Dr. Robertson ; and by none have the inconveniencies which it threatens been more successfully avoided. In the former respect his merit... | |
 | William Robertson - 1821 - 436 pages
...their effects on the manners and condition of mankind, and to blend the lights of philosophy with the appropriate beauties of historical composition. In...history been more frequently attempted than by Dr. Robert' son ; and by none have the inconveniences which it threatens been more successfully avoided.... | |
 | William Robertson - 1822 - 506 pages
...their effects on the manners and condition of mankind, and to blend the lights of philosophy with the appropriate beauties of historical composition. In...philosophy •with history been more frequently attempted tlran by Dr. Robertson ; and by none have the inconvenien«i" which it threatens been more successfully... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 422 pages
...their effects on the manners and condition of mankind, and to blend the lights of philosophy with the appropriate beauties of historical composition. In...respect' his merit is great ; but in the latter, he may be safely proposed as a pattern for imitation. Nor does the beauty of his narrative consist only... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 416 pages
...their effects on the manners and condition of mankind, and to blend the lights of philosophy with the appropriate beauties of historical composition. In...respect his merit is great ; but in the latter, he may be safely proposed as a pattern for imitation. Nor does the beauty of his narrative consist only... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 410 pages
...reduced, as he must frequently be, to the alternative, either of interrupting unseasonably the phain of events, or, by interweaving disquisition and narrative...respect his merit is great ; but in the latter, he may be safely proposed as a pattern for imitation. Nor does the beauty of his narrative consist only... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1835 - 1294 pages
...enlarged and dignified, the difficulty of his task has increased in the same proportion : reduced, as be must frequently be, to the alternative, either of...respect his merit is great ; but in the latter, he may be safely proposed as a pattern for imitation. Nor does the beauty of his narrative consist only... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1835 - 630 pages
...unseasonably the chain of events, or, by interweaving disquisition and narrative together, of sacrificing1 clearness to brevity. By few writers of the present age has this combination of philosopby with history been more frequently attempted than by Dr. Robertson ; and by none have the... | |
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Voltaire, to connect with the view of political transactions, an examination of their effects on the manners and condition of mankind, and to blend the lights of philosophy with the appropriate beauties of historical composition. In consequence of this... 
